The maker behind the mask: Jemma Gowland
by Paul BaileyToday, it is hard to categorise her work as it is constantly changing. Often haunting, sometimes surreal and always beautifully executed.
Robert Brady, in Retrospect
Robert Brady was born in Reno, Nevada, a gaming city known as “The Biggest Little City in the World”. He took a high school craft class that gave him, “that sense of complete control, authorship, and…
Jaeyoun’s Recent Works,
My current feelings are not as solid as I expected them to be as a child; they are still immature. Trying to represent my feelings, the characters in my work unfold as a variety of narratives, which a…
Keith Schneider’s Ceramic Figures (How Toys Become Real)
by Gabrielle GopinathKeith Schneider’s ceramic figures should come with an advisory: close looking may prompt flashbacks and initiate spontaneous incursions of memory. Schneider uses clay to construct two and four-legged…
The Devil’s Interval: Tom Bartel and his Sculpture
I. THE LENS OF THE AUTHOR Several years before this one, I was a frequent contributor to journals such as this. But life will change on its own accord, and for the last few years my occupation has bee…
Social Ideology in Ceramic Art
Since the beginning of history, the relationship between society, ideology and art has been shaped by the conditions of their particular contemporaneous time. Over decades, it is people who shape the…